xi, 259 p. : 29 cm

"Paleontologists Kenneth D. Rose and J. David Archibald have assembled the world's leading authorities to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date evolutionary history of placental mammals. Focusing on anatomical evidence, the contributors present an unbiased scientific account of the initial radiation and ordinal relationships of placental mammals, representing both the consensus and significant minority viewpoints. This book will be invaluable to paleontologists, evolutionary biologists mammalogists, and students."--BOOK JACKET

Includes bibliographical references and index

Womb with a view : the rise of placentals / J. David Archibald and Kenneth D. Rose -- Looking back at the record : George Gaylord Simpson and paleomammalogy / Leo F. Laporte -- Anatomical evidence for superordinal/ordinal eutherian taxa in the Cretaceous / John R. Wible, Guillermo W. Rougier and Michael J. Novacek -- Molecular evidence for major placental clades / Mark S. Springer ... [et al.] -- Insectivoran-grade placentals / Robert J. Asher -- Macroscelidea and Tubulidentata / Patricia A. Holroyd and Jason C. Mussell -- Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and relatives) / Emmanuel Gheerbrant, Daryl P. Domning and Pascal Tassy -- Xenarthra and Pholidota / Kenneth D. Rose ... [et al.] -- Euarchonta (Dermoptera, Scandentia, Primates) / Mary T. Silcox ... [et al.] -- Glires (Lagomorpha, Rodentia) / Jin Meng and Andre? R. Wyss -- Chiroptera / Nancy B. Simmons -- Carnivora / John J. Flynn and Gina D. Wesley-Hunt -- Perissodactyla / Jeremy J. Hooker -- Artiodactyla / Jessica M. Theodor, Kenneth D. Rose and Jorg Erfurt -- Cetacea / Philip D. Gingerich

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